porcelainize
verbEtymology From porcelain + -ize.
1
To bake like porcelain.
- porcelainized clay shales
2
To make or become glassy or porcelain-like.
- They may, however, be used as shewn in the drawing, but such walls must be built entirely of the best description of fire bricks or lumps and fire-clay, and should not be connected above with any portion of the work, as they are sure to fuse or porcelainize more or less .1839, The Repertory of Patent Inventions, page 267:
- Screw a spout into her mouth and porcelainize her for a men's room in Kabool!1981, Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat, page 667:
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- When Patience discovers the plot to porcelainize the flesh of America's fee-males (obsessed, of course, with beauty only under the savage dominion of — ptui! —male lookism), they kill her!2007, Alan Farrell, High Cheekbones, Pouty Lips, Tight Jeans, page 49:
3
To apply a glassy or porcelain-like coating or finish to.
- In recent months a technique has been worked out to porcelainize the steel blanks .1953, Investor - Volume 4, page 26:
- Permanently porcelainize your laundry trays, new or old, at 1⁄2 the cost of new trays. Just brush revolutionary EV-R-SHIELD Glascote inside your tubs.1954, “(advertisement)”, in Popular Science, volume 165, page 93:
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- Porcelainize mended surfaces.1973, Laurence Adams Malone, How to Mend Your Treasures, page 121: